Astha Srivastava

Mai agar 5 mein se 10 stars dene ka option hota toh wo bhi de deti! Kya hi khoobsurat movie banayi hai, dil bhar aaya hai dekh ke. The movie depicts an old-times culture where women get married at young ages, do household chores only, are not allowed to follow their dreams, and have to do what men in the homes want, even the food being cooked at home should be of the men's choice. The movie plot is like- 3-4 newlyweds couples take a train journey after the bride's vidai from mayka to sasural. The wives of 2 men get exchanged as all the brides had long ghunghats. Both the women are totally different, the first one Jaya is all about following her dream to study further, who gets married to a man Pradeep who is brutal and gets married in the lalach of dowry, while the other one Phoolkumari is totally into household chores and so simple who gets a loving husband Deepak. After being exchanged, Jaya tried to escape from Pradeep and sold her gold jewelry to deposit the admission fee for further studies. Following the process, the Police Manohar thought she belonged to a gang of thieves and arrested her. Phoolkumari stayed with a woman at station Manju who had a tea stall and helped her till the time she was found by Deepak. After Jaya's arrest, the printer guy in the village came with Phoolkumari's missing poster prints which Jaya got printed by him to search for Phholkumari as she got to know the immense love Deepak had for Phoolkumari. Based on that poster, Phoolkumari was finally found and reached to her sasural and met Deepak & family. On the other hand, Pradeep came to the police station to pick Jaya up where he slapped her for being missing and selling her jewelry and told her to recover it from her mother. After the incident, Manohar arrested him and Jaya was set free from the monster. Deepak's family bid adieu to Jaya as she went to pursue her career in organic farming and thanked her for helping to find Phoolkumari. Jaya thanked them for helping her find herself. What a storyline, and class acting by everyone. We need more movies like this! Kudos and congratulations to all who have been a part of this wonderful masterpiece. Cheers.

An okay'ish movie with one thing shown repeatedly over time. There is a singer from a lower-cast community who sings some adult songs and the audience likes it a lot. He gains popularity over time and finds a partner too, to sing along. Eventually, as in general, jealousy takes over the hearts of other existing artists and they can't see him shining brighter than them. Threats to life start taking place by one or another person in the singer's life and he moves to Canada. The threats continue there too and he returns to India. Eventually, he, along with his wife, were shot dead. In the end, I had some expectations from the climax for the police to at least work a little bit and do their job, look into the matter, and find the culprits but all they did was hear Chamkila's story from his friends the whole night after his death and closed the file. Talking about the roles played by various actors, Diljit Paaji outperformed his role as Chamkila and did justice to the role while Parineeti as Amarjyot was the perfect match for him. Other side roles played as friends of Chamkila were also well-performed. Overall, a little boring as the same things like threats, songs, and concepts kept repeating throughout the movie.

Watched it this year and it was an amazing movie! How a woman single-handedly takes care of her children and lives a life fearlessly irrespective of what society thinks has been shown very bravely. We live in a society where the so-called societal pressure doesn't let a lot of women live a life the way they want to, this movie shows the power within women who can lead in the direction they choose to without having to get an assurance from their own family. Regret watching it this late.

WOW!! What a movie! We need to talk about such things that exist but somewhere suppressed due to some or the other reason. It is commendable to see how this topic has been made open by the voice of a single person fighting fearlessly. It also shows, how people go against you when you are fighting for a good cause. But when you know you are right, just go for it! Even after having constant risk, Vaishali was so dedicated to her passion and to saving the lives of those little girls. The story has been shown in so natural, yet powerful way. Praising the acting of one actor would be an injustice to everybody else. So all in one, everybody outshined their respective roles and seemed so real. Finally, a movie worth watching and giving time for! Commendable!!

The movie was released on OTT and I watched it yesterday. I didn't understand what the fuss was all about. It has no story. Even if the directors wanted to show the immense love of a son towards his father, it could've been shown in many different ways. Why this way was opted? Undoubtedly, some little good scenes were also there (Vijay standing up for his sister, Geeta standing up for love, Vijay running from school for his father's birthday, etc) but these get hidden in front of all the chaos and misleading things which have been shown. Now I know why everyone who watched it earlier said it was disrespectful to women. No doubt women have been treated like objects. Love doesn't push to shoot someone you are extremely in love with, no matter what! Extended fights just to increase the screen time. This all could've been shown just in an hour or so and in a much better way. Total time waste!